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On Wednesday, March 20, 2019, WICS hosted their end-of-the-quarter potluck. Friends brought lots of delicious food to share such as dumplings, fried rice, rotisserie chicken, pasta, brownies, and cookies. Yum! We sat around in tables and bonded with our fellow ICS students. We worried about our upcoming finals and chit-chatted Read More

On March 6, 2019, WICS hosted a Self-Care Session, with fun and de-stressing activities for all the members and the students that attended. We included several stress-relieving activities assigned to each table, and there were fun songs and videos played in the beginning to create a stress-free mood. The main Read More

On February 27th, WICS hosted an information session with Slalom Consulting, a business and technology consulting firm, of which around 20 people attended! We met Mike Hernandez and Ernie Campos, both talent acquisition managers at Slalom, as well as Lindsay Bert, a talent acquisition analyst. Slalom representatives introduced themselves with Read More

On February 20th, WICS members went out to Santa Ana for a social break at Round 1 bowling! There were roughly 20 people who joined WICS for this event. We began the social by eating dinner at the food court in Main Place Mall before heading over to Round 1 Read More

On February 19th, WICS and VGDC invited Amanda Cullen, a PhD Student at CATS Lab, Candace Thomas, a Senior Encounter Designer at Blizzard, Nikki Crenshaw, an associate UX researcher at Blizzard, to host a panel at UCI of women involved in the video game industry. We went through questions about Read More

On February 13 WICS members took a break from studying and got together to play a game of Jeopardy. Everyone got to have some delicious pizza before the game started. About 25 people attended and there were four teams of 4-5 people. Players had a lot of fun answering questions Read More

On February 6th, WICS members met up in preparation for everyone’s second least favorite time of the quarter, midterm season! Members studied in groups for their respective midterms while eating lots of study snacks. This event was a great way for members to bond and get ready for midterms together!

On January 30th, WICS mentors and mentees got together for some friendly competition and to destress from midterms at Battle of the Mentorships. After munching on yummy pizza, our 50 students were ready to split into teams of 6 and 7 to compete! Mentorship families tested their teamwork and inference Read More

On January 23rd 2019, WICS had the pleasure of meeting engineers and recruiters from VMWare at our VMWare info session. About 30 general members came, including many graduate students and students who have never been to a WICS event before! The event comprised of a presentation, which allowed us to Read More

On January 22, WICS teamed up with UCI Division of Career Pathways to host our annual Mock Technical Interviews! Many students came by during the day to get some interview experience from real industry professionals. Company representatives from Amazon, Originate, and eBay conducted technical interviews for attendees, asking real questions Read More